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Brevard, N. C.
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THE TIMES
Estab. 1931
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1931, at the Post Office in Brevard, N. C.,
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THURSDAY,#MARCH 10, 1949
The General Speaks
Now that the Red Cross drive is on, it
is time to consider seriously some of the
work of the Red Cross in times of war and
peace.
If there is any uncertainty in your mind
about what the Red Cross means, it is well
to consider what General Dwight D. Eisen
hower has to say about it:
“Organizations and institutions—educa
tional, social, humanitarian—supported fi
nancially by voluntary individual contribu
tions are characteristic of our way of life
. . . evidence of our people’s readiness to
help each other. In their forefront is the
American Red Cross.
“Once a year the Red Cross calls upon
us all to help carry on its work.
“Each of us has his own personal rea
sons for answering this call. These are
mine:
“To men in the armed forces, the Red
' Cross is a prompt, efficient friend in per
* sonal emergencies.
“To war veterans—particularly those
confined to beds and wheelchairs in Vet
erans’ hospitals—the Red Cross remains a
constant friend and counselor.
“And to all of us the Red Cross is the
Tecognized civilian disaster relief agency.
It has the know-how to meet human needs
growing out of a large-scale national emer
gency.
“For all these deeds and for the other
services it performs, the Red Cross de
serves our continuing support.’’
Let’s get behind the drive in this county
and raise our goal of $2715 without delay.
Remember the Red Cross is YOUR Red
'Cross.
Forests On The Farm
Farmers are learning that diversifica
tion pays off in more ways than one. Ali
lands are not suitable to the same crops.
And the better farmers who study their re
sources and income have long ago discov
ered that it also pays not to have all their
eggs in one basket, so to speak.
More and more farmers are realizing the
value of forests, not only from the stand
point of beauty, soil conservation, but ac
tual income as well. In this section of the
state reforestation is a particularly impor
tant practice. And we urge1 more and
more farmers to consider it.
A report drawn up by a committee head
ed by Dean Hilton, of State college, clear
ly points out the opportunities farmers
have of increasing their incomes through
good management of forests.
“With reasonable protection from fire.
Insects, diseases, and from grazing in the
piedmont and mountain sections,” says
this report, “farm woods will produce an
average stumpage income of $3 per acre
each year. The harvesting and marketing
of forest products will provide a labor in
vcome of $12 per acre.”
With more than nine million acres or
about half of the state’s total fairm land in
forests, the Hilton committee figured that
North Carolina farmers have a potential
income in their woods of $27,000,000 for
stumpage plus $108,000,000 as labor in
come.
That makes a total of $135,000,000,
which is about a third greater than the
estimated value of the 1948 corn crop, and
corn is one of the state’s most important
crops.
Our forest potential is even greater if
we will replant with seedlings our idle and
eroded land and the cut-over woodlands
which now serve only as eyesores on our
beautiful countryside. Besides the nine
million acres in farm forests, there are two
million additional acres of worn out crop
land that should be in forests. And there
are another two million acres of cutover
land in the state that should be planted or
assisted in natural reseeding.
The beauty about this opportunity for
farm forest development is that the aver
age farmer doesn’t need a lot of extra cap
ital or labor to take advantage of it. He
can do the work at his own choosing be
tween crops and in off seasons and he al
ready has. the equipment he needs—an
axe, a drag chain and a good team or
tractor.
Expansion Needed
Citizens who appreciate the necessity
for adequate water and sewerage systems
no doubt applaud the decision of the board
of aldermen to gather all relevant data so
that they will be able to determine what
the cost of the project here wilj be. With
in the next few days the engineers will
submit their reports.
It will be necessary for the town to float
bonds to finance these expansions, but w*e
do not believe the citizens will decline to
put up the money.
It was revealed some w^eeks ago that
the population of Brevard had increased
60 per cent since 1940. Further growth
is in progress, and this growth will be hin
dered or helped by the kind of facilities
w'e have for furnishing adequate water and
disposing of sewage and waste.
The standing indebtedness of the town
has been substantially reduced in recent
years, which will make it possible for the
town to float a bond issue in the event the
people approve of the step.
Local AAA Funds Increased
With greater emphasis placed on agri
culture in Transylvania county, it is partic
ularly fitting that appropriations of conser
vation materials and payments through the
AAA be increased here in 1949.
According to the local secretary, Tran
sylvania farmers will be aided by more than
$22,000 if they carry out the conservation
practices required by the triple-A.
There is one difference in the program
this year. Farmers must get prior approval
of practices before they are started.
Act now. If you are participating in the
’49 program, order lime, phosphate and pas
ture seed immediately.
Socialism Is Always Hungry j
Recent press dispatches from England
illustrate perfectly the insatiable appetite
of socialism. There is a move underway to
have the labor government take over Eng
land’s pubs. It has also been proposed
that the government nationalize football
pools, which are one of the most popular !
forms of legal gambling in Britain. Final- I
ly, an item says that Britain’s mo'tor indus- j
try has now become the biggest exporter j
of automobiles in the world, and that a
minister told the House of Commons that
the time may come when that industry
will be nationalized.
Those who think that a “little socialism”
may be a good thing—so long as it doesn’t
touch them—should think it over. For if
there is one thing sure about socialism, it
is that it’s never satisfied until it has de
voured all enterprise and established a
complete dictatorship over all of a nation’s
productive resources, including the labor
force.
There is a vital lesson in that for the
American people. We may think, to take
the most important example, that it’s all
right for the government to go into the
electric business, and to absorb the private
industry in the process. But when this
happens, the mere question of who is go
ing to produce our electricity is the least
of the matter. The big thing, which over
rides all other considerations, is that a
precedent is established whereby any kind
of business, from a grocery store to a news
paper to an automobile plant, may be so
cialized and made a function of govern
ment as well.
The people can have one or the other,
but never both.
"These Days”
By
George
E.
Sokolsky
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depression
Disinflation, the new federal
prose term for a depression, is
designed to describe an upset in
government thinking and plan
ning. Just as Henry Wallace ex
pected a bust immediately after
the end of the war. and the gov
ernment devised its policies to
meet that bust, only to discover a
boom which moved into an infla
tion, so Mr. Truman’s current eco
nomic advisers expected a rising
inflation for this year and so pre
pared his essay on the state of the
union and his budget message, on
ly to discover a depression.
The very men who have made
great political capital by ridiculing
such a phrase as “prosperity is
just around the corner” are now
saying that if everybody will be
optimistic, everything will be all
right. It is as though economists
have turned themselves into psy
choanalysts, which maybe they
have done, and are substituting
for an analysis of facts the atmos
phere of “the roses that bloom in
the spring, tra-la!”
The facts indicate that a normal
and not unhappy event is occur
ring which might have come ear
lier but for government interven
tion, namely, that the backlog of
consumer goods orders has been
liquidated and the backlog of cap
ital goods orders is in its final
stages. This means that the mar
ket has changed from a sellers’ to
a buyers’ market and that resist
ance to spending is setting in. This
has been complicated by the Presi
dent’s tax proposals and forces
the consumer to postpone buying.
One can only pay taxes with cash
in hand and if the government
wants more, the consumer has less
money for purchases.
This combination of an increase
in available inventory and fear of
increased taxes, plus the fact that
we live in a country in which per
haps as high as 40 per cent of all
purchases are postponable. ere
ates a drop in prices and increases
the value of the dollar. This drop
would be deeper expept for gov
ernment farm subsidies and gov
ernment prospective spending for
military expenditures and current
spending by dumping surplus
goods in Europe and Asia under
the Marshall plan
The President faces the same
dilemma this year as he did in
1945 when, in pursuance of Henry
Wallace's Statistics, he and the
country were violently misled. I
listened to Leon Keyserling on the
radio recently try to defend the
council of economic advisers’ er
rors and he did very badly. I shall
refer to his absurdities when 1
can get the radio script.
In this connection, it is inter
esting to point to an article in the
London “Economist” which deals
with the creeping Socialism of this
administration:
. . The price systems acts
not freely, but under controls im
posed bjN business, by labour, by
governments, both state and fed
eral. Rent controls are impose^
by nation and state. The price of
a fur coat in New York includes
20 per cent federal tax and 2 per
cent city tax, while if the purchas
er goes home with it to Connecti
1949 RED CROSS FUND
GIVE
cut she may also be liable to a 3
per cent state tax . . . prices on
tooth brushes, shaving creams and
other trade-marked articles may
be set by the manufacturer and
must be kept by the retailer under
penalty of state law. The recent
rise in the cost of travel between
New York and Boston had to be
approved by the Interstate Com
merce Commission. The use of
prefrabricated houses to cut the
building costs has been blocked
by the antiquated building codes
of many towns.”
Apparently the socialistic Brit
ish have discovered a fellow-feel
ing in Washington. The “Econ
omist” says of this:
. . The President’s council of
economic advisers calls (the
American economic system) a ‘con
gery of private and government
efforts,’ and the phrase is good
shorthand for a definition which
could not be more precise with
out also being more clumsy.”
Quite so. except that the Brit
ishers might have used a simpler
phrase, “mixed up.” These gov
ernment economists seemed to
have a happy faculty for figuring
| wrong, outguessing themselves,
and then covering their errors
with federal prose which, while
being terriby mixed up and
clumsy, gives the appearance of
urecision by the art of saying noth
ing voluminously. All of which
only means that some sort of de
pression, already involving 3,000,
000 unemployed, is here and needs
to be covered up for political rea
sons.
Grammatical
An army captain who was tong
on experience but short on formal
education was having difficulties
with several college graduates in
his company. They persisted in
correcting his grammar, particu
larly his occasional use of a
dangling preposition. Finally, this
notice appeared on the bulletin
board over the captain’s signa
ture:
“There is a certain spirit of in
subordination in this company up
with which I will not put.”
How Scalf’s Helped
This Little Girl
Mr. and Mrs.
Lowell Fannin,
102 Nevada Ave
nue, LaFollette,
Tenn., says: “Af
ter she had flu,
our little daugh
ter, Phyllis, suf
fered from loss
of appetite and
indigestion. She
lost weight, phy|iis Fannin
looked pale ah^LaFollette, Tenn.
u n dernourished.
was restless at night. We gave her
Scalf’s Indian River Medicine. She
eats heartily, sleeps well, looks
and acts like a different child.”
Scalf’s is on sale at all good
drug stores; try it. Nothing re
places its years of use. Hear
Scalf’s Harmoneers Quartet over
WWNC, Dial 570, at 9:30 a. m.
Monday through Friday.
REWARDING,
EXCITING -
Yes, and plenty interesting, too.
That can be your life, as it is
for thousands of other young
men, in the new U. S. Air
Force. Here’s opportunity that
can’t be matched to start a real
lv worthwhile career in av
I tion. You get the best and mos’
advanced training. A wide
riety of interesting jobs. Excel
lent opportunities for advance
ment and promotion. The edu
cational features of training
the new U. S. Air Force can
mean real success and happi
ness for you. For the young
man who wants to enter avia
tion, this is the deal made to
order for you. Act now. Don’t
delay. See your U. S. Air Force
Recruiter today. He’s at the
U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force
Recruiting Station. It’s at Post
Office Building, Asheville, N. C.
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Ihe Everyday Counsellor
By REV, HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D.
Are you bored? Are you lonely?
Does the monotony of your daily
routine wear you down? Many
men and particularly women are.
Elsie Robinson in her syndicated
column “Listen, World” makes a
istirrino nlan fnt- .
many women
whose lives are
dull and drab
from “the soli
tary confine- :
ment” of the
home and the
daily round of j
domestic duties.jl
Every bit that I
she writes i s w
nut. me uauy spaugn
round of dish
washing, preparing meals, clean
ing, laundering is bound to be
come dreadfully monotonous.
But much of life for all of us
can be like that if we permit it.
Eating might become monotonous,
as we do it every day. For some
of us it is, but for most of us it
isn’t, because we eat to satisfy
hunger and it gives us a sense of
well being. All of us have many
routine duties we do daily. For
some they are monotonous; for
others they are not. It depends
on how we look at them.
All of us have a hunger for feel
ing that we are part of life, and
a part of other people. Selfish
ness stifles that desire. When we
think about our daily duties in
terms only of ourselves, they can
become fearfully monotonous, and
we can be overcome with self pity.
But when we realize that the dis
charge of these duties contributes
to the well being of others we find
.........
satisfaction. We are satisfying
that hunger for feeling that we
are part of life.
I will never forget calling on a
dear old lady who had led a vig
orous and active life. She had
reared a large and fine family the
hard way. Then illness confined
her to her bed. For a while she
occupied herself with needlework.
Then the doctor took that from
her. One day I called on her,
found her flat on her back with
hands folded. But she was smil
ing and quite cheerful. I asked
her why she was in such good
humor. She said, “I am having
a good time with my thoughts and
recollections of the past years.
The doctors can take things away
from me, but they can’t take my*
thoughts away.” With the eyes of
her mind she was looking back
over the blessings of the past and
having a good time at it. She
was thoroughly enjoying the
knowledge that she had been a
vital part in the lives of others
through many years.
If we feel that we are in “soli
tary confinement,” it is because
we make it so. Only we can close
the eyes of our minds. Only we
can close the door of communion
with our God and our fellowman.
There is more beauty around us
and behind us, than most of us
take the trouble to see. And what
anticipated beauty there is ahead
of us for those of us who know
and love our Lord. St. Paul wrote,
“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the
heart of man, the things which
God hath prepared for them that
love Him.” (Reference: I Cor. 2:9)
YOU'RE TELLING ME!
---By WILLIAM HITT--- , ...
CMtrcf Pr»Jj Writer
Three of the Dionne quintuplets
have boy friends, according to a
gossip columnist. The other two
are, apparently, just a couple of
old maids.
—
England now boasts a talking
ghost. An idea! subject for a
radio interview.
The grizzly bear can outrun a
horse. Where do you go to bet on
’em?
The elevators in San Francis
co’s proposed mile high build
ing will, undoubtedly, be jet
propelled with rocket-assisted
take-off. And how about oxy
gen masks for those going be
yond the 500th floor?
Residents of the super skyscrap
er. Hoyt King points out. would be
able to look down their noses at
the x'est of the city.
British navy is to use vacuum
eleaners instead of mops in
neating up decks. Just another
of those sweeping changes?
George Bernard Shaw has been
t'oted the most popular person in
the world over 80 years of age.
Hope he enjoys the title—it took
him long enough to earn it.
Kdlmid Dair
BREVARD
PHONE 356
Faces of Disaster
! .__
There were thousands of
fires last year which left in
their wake death, injury and
widespread destruction. Again
this year, thousands of fire \ .j
tims will need housing, medical
care, food, and long-term reha
bilitation. And, as always, your
Red Cross will be there. Last
year, through your Red Cross,
you gave relief in 303 disasters
.. . assisted 312,400 persons.
You, too, con help through J
Your RED CROSS
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